Edward BURNE-JONES

Ladies and Death
(1860)

Medium

pen and ink over pencil laid down on thin card

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1898

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

pen and ink over pencil laid down on thin card

Measurements

14.4 × 45.0 cm

Inscription

inscribed verso Designed and drawn by E. Burne-Jones
The property of Geo P. Boyce Aug. 4, 1860
inscribed verso Ladies and Death
inscribed verso George Price Boyce

Accession Number

41-2

Department

International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1898
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Ceremonial and Funerary Emotions and Mental States Human Figures

Subjects (specific)

bells (idiophones) corpses (bodies) dark (colour attribute) Death (allegorical character) graves greyscale sunflower (genus) women (female humans)

Movements

Pre-Raphaelite

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Ladies and Death
(1860)